High Intensity Business

Luke Carlson (Luke [@] DiscoverStrength.com) is the founder and CEO of  Discover Strength , a fast growing personal training business based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Discover Strength's four personal training facilities are among the highest volume/revenue training facilities in the United States. Luke is a sought after speaker to businesses and leaders in a variety of industries. Alongside HIT l...

Ted Harrison  ( Facebook / Twitter ) is a UK-based, High-intensity trainer and the owner of Vital Exercise , a private exercise studio specialising in strength and conditioning. Ted has spent over three decades helping people transform their health and build their best physiques using an evidence-based exercise approach. This is Ted's third appearance on the podcast. Check out Episode 1 and Episod...

Dr. Carrie Diulus  ( Twitter , Instagram , Facebook ) is a thriving Type 1 diabetic who utilizes a low-carbohydrate diet with specialized insulin strategies both for herself and her diabetic patients to have a powerful impact on the management of these conditions. Dr Diulus received her medical degree from Northeast Ohio Medical University, did three years of residency in anatomic and clinical pat...

James Steele, PhD  ( Instagram  / email - james.steele [@] solent.ac.uk) is the Principal Investigator at Ukactive Research Institute and Associate Professor of Sport and Exercise Science at Southampton Solent University, UK. He has published many peer reviewed articles on a variety of areas relating to health and fitness with particular focus upon the impact of resistance training. In his role at...

Arjan Meijer  is from the Netherlands and has been training with weights since the 80s. He's done it all, read it all, and heard it all. He's tried high volume traditional weight training, Dorian Yates style high intensity training, Mike Mentzer consolidation routines, and much more. Arjan competed in two natural body building competitions at age 22 and 23, coming second place in the first and six...

Ivor Cummins BE(Chem) CEng MIEI is a chemical engineer and has since spent over 25 years in corporate technical leadership and management positions. He was shortlisted in 2015 as one of the top 6 of 500 applicants for "Irish Chartered Engineer of the Year". Ivor has had a prolific career leading teams in complex problem-solving scenarios. He has often led worldwide teams with over 60-70 engineers...

Ad Ligtvoet  is a training instructor and former MedX therapist for Keiser Training in Aachen, Germany. He also runs his own business,  Ad Ligtvoet Training Therapy Nutrition,  which focuses on helping people restore metabolic health through an efficient and practical application concerning muscle training and nutrition. The exercise programme takes place at Ad's private facility and his nutrition...

Intense Health Co-Founder, Marcelo Mesquita , first started lifting weights at 14, owned his first gym at 16, and has been a practitioner for the last 2 decades training general population, amateur and professional athletes. Marcelo has supervised more than 40,000 workouts in his career and shows no signs of stopping. Both Marcelo, and his wife and Co-Founder, Andreia Mesquita, are extremely passi...

Bill   DeSimone  ( Congruent Exercise ) is a personal trainer known for his sensible, biomechanics-based approach to strength training and is the go-to biomechanics expert for some of the best high-intensity trainers in the world like Dr Doug McGuff and Skyler Tanner. Starting as a trainer in 1983 in New York City, in 2006 he opened his own studio, Optimal Exercise , in central New Jersey. He is t...

Dr Doug McGuff ( Instagram  / YouTube ) is the co-author of Body by Science: A Research Based Program for Strength Training, Body building, and Complete Fitness in 12 Minutes a Week and The Primal Prescription: Surviving The "Sick Care" Sinkhole . Doug practices full-time emergency medicine with Blue Ridge Emergency Physicians and owns, Ultimate Exercise , where he and his instructors continue to...

Dr. Ted Dreisinger (tdreisinger@therapyadvisors [dot] com) graduated from Fairmont State University with a degree in physical education and language arts. He earned a Master's Degree at the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and a PhD at the University of Missouri. Over the years, he has provided successful venture funded injury prevention programs in Upper Extremity and Spine for Fortune 500 compan...

Wayne L. Westcott, Ph. D., is professor of exercise science at Quincy College in Quincy, Massachusetts. Dr. Westcott has been a strength training consultant for numerous organizations, including the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Air Force, the American Council on Exercise, the YMCA of the USA, General Motors, and Nautilus. He has authored 28 books/textbooks, and more than 90 peer-reviewed research/academic...

Martin Gibala, Ph. D. is a professor and chair of the Department of Kinesiology at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada. His research on the health benefits of interval training has attracted immense scientific attention and worldwide media coverage. He is the author of a bestselling book, The One-Minute Workout: Science Shows a Way to Get Fit That's Smarter, Faster, Shorter . Martin has publis...

It's been a while since I recorded a podcast on my own training and diet journey. In this podcast, I talk about my own physical insecurities and new approach to diet to see if I can add more muscle mass whilst minimising fat gain. Since recording this, I was reminded that muscle gain, at my level, is a marathon, not a sprint. Therefore, I'm looking to continue this experiment for the rest of 2018...

Dave and Patty Durell co-own and co-operate Rock Solid Fitness , a one-on-one personal training studio in Dunedin, Florida. Both Patty and Dave have an extraordinary fitness and business resume. Dave has been helping people improve their health for over 36 years. He has worked as a Fitness Center Manager, Personal Trainer, Licensed Physical Therapist Assistant, and Collegiate and NFL Strength and...

Simon Melov, PhD , heads the Buck Institute's Genomic Core, which explores the role of the energy-making units inside cells, the mitochondria. Simon's research focus is in identifying molecular hallmarks of aging to guide the development of anti-aging therapies. Melov received his PhD in Biochemistry from the University of London in the UK. He held positions at Emory University in Atlanta and at t...

Dr. Bryce Lee  (Insta: strengthspaceva ) is a former Surface Warfare Naval Officer turned Director of Therapy and Co-founder of StrengthSpace , a provider of resistance-based exercise and physical therapy services. Bryce is a former Crossfit and Kettlebell addict and following a string of acute and overuse training injuries, became a Body By Science devotee, and eventually began training a few pri...

Brandon Jonker  (Brandon [@] Jonkercc [dot] com), former Director of Operations at Discover Strength , is a small business executive with a proven track record in the successful implementation of operations management principles and tactics to help scale and optimise a fitness business. Discover Strength's four personal training facilities are among the highest volume/revenue training facilities i...

Mike Pullano  is the Product and Fulfilment Manager at  ARXFit , which he uses to exercise an average time of 7 hours and 8 minutes PER YEAR. In this episode, Mike and I do a deep dive on ARX technology to understand its role in the evolving exercise market, how business can incorporate ARX into their service portfolio and whether or not it's superior for stimulating optimal muscle hypertrophy. Hi...

In this episode, my guests are Abe Williams  (Co-Founder of EverStrongSF ) and Mike Pullano (Product and Fulfilment Manager at ARXFit ). EverstrongSF is a fast-growing high-intensity strength training facility in San Francisco using ARX and MedX to provide a highly effective, efficient, and evidence-based exercise service. Everstrong SF have leveraged ARX technology to differentiate their business...

Six years ago,  Ali Watts  left the corporate world in Sydney, Australia, to follow her passion - helping people transform their bodies and minds through fitness and nutrition. She began her journey as a personal trainer and yoga teacher. Now, amongst other things (such as being a bad ass fit chick ) she runs a quickly expanding Health Coaching business (employing other Health Coaches), is an owne...

Dr. Jeremy Loenneke is an Assistant Professor of Exercise Science at The University of Mississippi within the School of Applied Sciences. He obtained his PhD in Exercise Physiology from the University of Oklahoma under the mentorship of Dr. Michael Bemben. Dr. Loenneke had previously earned a Master's degree in Nutrition and Exercise Science from Southeast Missouri State University under the mento...

Dr Felipe Damas  earned his doctorate at the University of São Paulo and McMaster University . Nowadays, he's a postdoc at the Federal University of São Carlos researching exercise physiology, specifically on muscle adaptations to resistance training, focusing on mechanisms such as muscle damage, muscle protein synthesis, satellite cells, to better understand muscle hypertrophy. Contact Felipe: Fa...

Richard J. Wolff, RD, LDN ( @myMEDFITNESS ) has dedicated his life to helping people live well. He is an entrepreneur, writer and founder of MEDFITNESS , the company that created On Demand Strength Training ™. Richard earned a degree in nutritional science from the College of Health and Human Sciences at Northern Illinois University. He completed an internship in Medical Nutrition Therapy at North...

Dr. Ted Naiman  ( Burnfatnotsugar.com ) is a board-certified Family Medicine physician who has used his extensive knowledge and understanding of diet, nutrition, and exercise to treat patients, helping them lose weight, greatly improve their health, and drastically improve – in some cases reverse – metabolic and autoimmune diseases. Having been a vegetarian and a steady-state runner, Ted's focus i...